Somali News

Inside the Banadir Hospital's pediatric diarrhea center, there are images of emaciated babies receiving fluids through intravenous drips. These kids suffer from diarrhoea, a condition associated with cholera and unclean drinking water, which usually leads to malnutrition and fatal dehydration.

Nairobi - The Kenyan police on Thursday warned of a major crackdown in the northern town of Mandera near the border with Somalia, where Al-Shabaab suspects killed a police officer and injured five others in the past two days.

AN 18-year-old Somali citizen was yesterday charged in a Nairobi court with terrorism. Abdurizak Mohammed Hussein was charged that on March 5, he hurled a grenade at a shop in Easteligh area and injured one person.

Two weeks after she shook hands with First Lady Michelle Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry at the International Women of Courage Awards in Washington, Fartuun Adan will be recognized again Saturday by the local Somali community

Along with 15 other female students, this innocent 17 year-old Ogaden Somali girl, was held captive for three months in a “dark hole in the ground” and raped 13 times. This is just one of countless accounts of abuse....

AN 18-year-old Somali citizen was yesterday charged in a Nairobi court with terrorism. Abdurizak Mohammed Hussein was charged that on March 5, he hurled a grenade at a shop in Easteligh area and injured one person.

The government considers al Shabaab done as a major military force and is now considered a threat as bandits and terrorists. The AU (African Union) peacekeepers and government troops continue to chase the Islamic radicals out of towns and villages in central Somalia. There are not enough troops available to police all of Somalia, which in the best of times is a pretty lawless place.